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Race and Reconciliation
Daniel Herwitz
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Description for Race and Reconciliation
Paperback. Series: Public Worlds Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFM; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
A meditation on the lessons to be learned from South Africa’s transformation in the wake of apartheid
Justice, truth, and identity; race, society, and law—all come into dramatic play as South Africa makes the tumultuous transition to a post-apartheid democracy. Seeking the timeless through the timely and trying to find the deeper meaning in the sweep of events, Daniel Herwitz brings the vast resources of the philosophical essay to bear on the new realities of post-apartheid South Africa—from racial identity to truth commissions, from architecture to film and television.
A public intellectual’s reflections on public life, Herwitz’s essays question how the new South Africa has constructed its concepts of reconciliation and return and how its historical emergence has meant a rethinking, reimagining, reexperiencing, relabeling, and repoliticizing of race. Herwitz’s purpose is to give a philosophical reading of society—a society already relying on implicitly philosophical concepts in its social and political agendas. Working through these concepts, testing their relevance for reading society, his book itself becomes a part of the politics of definition and description in the new South Africa.Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Public Worlds Series
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816641086
SKU
V9780816641086
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About Daniel Herwitz
Daniel Herwitz is director of the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, and holds professorships in philosophy, history of art, and in the school of art and design. He taught at the University of Natal in South Africa from 1996 to 2002.
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